Tape to Mac

Good morning and a very happy new year to the Apple community.
Quick question. Like most of the 60's generation I have loads of cassette tapes with beloved music. Some are commercially recorded, some are home recorded. I would dearly love to get them into my iTunes before they deteriorate beyond use.
I've looked online and there seems to be only a couple of products that would do this. I need one that has a tape playing facility as all my tape players gave up the ghost ages ago. None of them get star ratings. Has anyone come across one that does the job simply, and effectively?
Thanks for any help.
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I've not used any of these devices - I assume you have seen cassette players with a built-in USB interface - but you don't have to be limited to these. Any cassette player can be connected to your iMac's line-in socket (you will need a lead with a 3.5mm stereo jack at the iMac end, and either the same thing at the cassette machine end or two RCA jacks (phono plugs). If you look around, probably in the second-hand market, you may be able to find a decent quality machine, which should be better than the USB versions.
Once plugged into the line in you can record from it with the QuickTime player or, better, an audio recorder/editor such as Audacity (free but a bit flaky) or Amadeus Pro ($40 but better).
It's best to record material in uncompressed format to begin with - AIFF (Mac) or WAV (Windows). Then you can move them into iTunes and convert them to a compressed format suitable for iPods.
In iTunes Preferences>General click the 'Import Settings' button and choose 'AAC encoder (it may be the default). Amend the bitrate if you want to - 128kb/s stereo produces reasonable results. (You can concert to MP3 if you prefer - choose 'MP3 encoder', but I would recommend 192 kb/s).
Now go to the library, select your AIFF/WAV files and from the 'Advanced' menu choose 'Create AAC version'. This will make duplicate AAC versions and you can delete the AIFF versions in iTunes (you will still have the original AIFF/WAV files outside iTunes if you haven't deleted them).

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